Chelone.
Chelone glabra. Balmony. Snake-head or Turtle-head. N. O. Scrofulariaceć.
Clinical.─
Debility. Dumb-ague. Jaundice. Liver,
diseases of. Quinine cachexia. Worms.
Characteristics.─
Chelone
has been used by old-school practitioners and eclectics as a cholagogue and vermifuge.
Burnett has used it as an organ-remedy in liver affections. His indication is “pain or
soreness of the left lobe of the liver and extending downwards.” This I can confirm. Chelone acts in a line between the hilus of the liver and the
fundus of the uterus. According to some observers it antidotes the Quinine cachexia; and is
a remedy for “dumb-ague,” i.e., ill-defined
paroxysms of aching and fever following severe malarial fevers. “Soreness of external
parts, as if the skin were off, especially about elbow,” has been confirmed as an
indication. “Debility from loss of tone of digestive organs, or liver, or from
exhausting diseases” (Hale). One to five-drop doses of the tincture have been given.
Relations.─
Compare:
Chi., Chenop., Cina, Helon., Hydrast., and (according to Burnett), especially Carduus mar.
(left lobe of liver). Compare also other Scrofularias, Grat., Dig., Tabac., Scrof. nod.® 2000
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